Modern popular theatre /
This book offers a concise history of popular theater since the early twentieth century. Using key popular culture theories and critical perspectives, it analyzes popular theaters across different cultural and political contexts. It introduces and critically examines a range of international artists...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2016]
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| Series: | Theatre and performance practices.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. The revolutionary impetus. Popular revolutionary theatres I : the Soviet Union
- Popular revolutionary theatres II : Germany
- The workers' theatre movement I : starting points, and Germany
- The workers' theatre movement II : Britain and the United States
- Rejuvenation and resistance : popular forms and the avant-garde
- Part 2. Contemporary resistance. Post-war popular theatre
- The popular in postmodern and contemporary performance.